This describes how the Californian felt after finding out his API Key was compromised, leaving his account vulnerable to hackers.On November 1st, the crypto-investor and co-founder of SmashTech woke up and logged into Coinbase account as he does everyday.Think of hackers as institutional influencers in cryptos.Coinbase’s only response thus far to the SmashTech co-founder is ‘they are looking into it’ and will have a specialist review the case.If lucky, Husain’s case will qualify for reimbursement under the crypto-exchange’s Account Protection Program (AP) ."